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Petticoat Loose: A Fragmentary "Tale Of the Castle" by Peter Pindar [John Wolcot]

Rowlandson, Thomas [Illustrator]

London: J.J. Stockdale, 1812. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. 28 x 22 cm. Four engraved hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. John Wolcot was blind by the year 1812, the letter perhaps dictated. "When blindness overtook him, he displayed a stoical good humour which makes us regret that a musical, artistic man, of a `kind and hearty disposition,' played so scurvy a literary role. This work is a prose poem, CHEL. Vol. 11, pp.37-38. Notes, "Pindar's strength lies in his power of realising for his reader a comic situation; polished epigram .....He loves to slip one of two sly colloquialisms into verses written in the formal eighteenth century style, and, thus bring out the broad fun of his conceptions." Pindar satirized Dr. Johnson and Boswell as well as George III. Robert Burns received a copy of Pindar's works from George Thomson, and held him in esteem. Not in TOOLEY.Text generally clean, plates bright with offsetting to text. Orig. tan wrappers with front cover paper label bound-in. Four pages of adverts at rear and at wrapper back cover. A few early scribbles on front cover wrapper. Early dark salmon cloth and navy morocco spine lettered in gilt. Teg. Very good. Item #21436

Price: $1,900.00